Alumni News
The Allen School’s Alumni News features stories and updates that celebrate the achievements and experiences of our alumni.
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August 12, 2025 -
Allen School News
In a recent paper, a team of researchers led by professor Matt Golub designed a new machine learning technique to understand how different parts of the brain talk to each other even when some parts can’t be directly observed.
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July 29, 2025 -
Association for Computational Linguistics
The Association for Computational Linguistics honored Min (Ph.D., ‘24) for her dissertation “Rethinking Data Use in Large Language Models,” which expanded the natural language processing community’s understanding of the behavior and capabilities of LLMs.
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July 9, 2025 -
UW College of Arts & Sciences
Ye, who graduated in June with degrees in computer science and philosophy, was recognized by the College of Arts & Sciences for his campus leadership and interdisciplinary research contributions spanning language models, computer vision, human-AI interaction and more.
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July 8, 2025 -
GeekWire
Amazon is hiring more than 100 engineers from the latest graduating class at the Allen School — an all-time high. Add in hires by Microsoft, Meta and Google, and the trend reflects a strong talent pipeline between the UW and Seattle’s tech industry.
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July 1, 2025 -
Allen School News
A team of University of Washington and NVIDIA researchers developed FlashInfer, a versatile inference kernel library that can help make large language models faster and more adaptable, and received a Best Paper Award at MLSys 2025 for their work.
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June 25, 2025 -
Allen School News
On Friday, June 13, an estimated 5,000 friends, family, faculty and staff packed the UW’s Alaska Airlines Arena, where roughly 800 graduates collected their commemorative diplomas, flipped their tassels and made the transition from Allen School students to Allen School alumni.
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June 12, 2025 -
Allen School News
Dell (Ph.D., '15) combines the fields of human-computer interaction and computer security and privacy to improve the lives of overlooked communities. The Allen School recognized her with the 2025 Alumni Impact Award, honoring former students with exceptional records of achievement.
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June 10, 2025 -
Allen School News
The UW recognized the team behind the redesigned introduction to programming course series — lecturer Kasey Champion and teaching professors Elba Garza, Miya Natsuhara, Hunter Schafer and Brett Wortzman — as part of the 2025 Awards of Excellence, one of the University’s highest honors.
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June 4, 2025 -
Allen School News
Sharma (Ph.D., ‘24) won the 2024 award from the Association for Computing Machinery for leveraging AI to make high-quality mental health support more accessible, and Min (Ph.D., ‘24) received an honorable mention for developing a new class of efficient and flexible language models.
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May 14, 2025 -
Allen School News
Armon Dadgar (B.S., ‘11) co-founded the high-flying cloud company HashiCorp inspired by an undergraduate research project. Now he and partner Joshua Kalla hope to sow the seeds of the next HashiCorp with a new professorship and support for a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs.